Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emile M. Cioran

I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.

Emily Dickinson

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

Paul Levinson

All the hand-wringing misses the most enduring truth: It is wrong to jail a reporter for protecting sources, including flawed reporters. When the dust clears, journalists and newsrooms will be emboldened and Miller's reputation will be transformed.

William Shakespeare

And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er-dusted

Henry Van Dyke

Lord, when my spirit shall return to thee, At the foot of a friendly tree let my body be buried, That this dust may rise and rejoice among the branches.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.

Henry Ward Beecher

Take from the Bible the Godship of Christ, and it would be but a heap of dust.

Og Mandino

I will embrace today's difficult tasks, take off my coat, and make dust in the world.

Omar Khayyam

Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so wisely - they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn Are scattered, and their mouths are stopped with Dust.

O. Henry

Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.

Michael Chabon

The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a scattered handful of doves or dust might be reunited by a word, that a paper rose consumed by fire could be made to bloom from a pile of ash. But everyone knew that it was only an illusion. The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.

Michael Connelly

You know you're going to get burned from time to time. It's just part of the game. So when it happens you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and forget about it because they're about to snap the ball again.

Theodore Parker

I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life.

Mahatma Gandhi

The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their subjects to dust.

Neal Stephenson

The full cosmos consists of the physical stuff and consciousness. Take away consciousness and it's only dust; add consciousness and you get things, ideas, and time.

Shan Sa

Tomorrow we will be nothing but earth and dust. Who will remember the love a soldier once knew?

Joel Osteen

When you honor God, the storms may come, but you have a promise that others don’t have: When it’s all said and done, you’ll still be standing. You may suffer a setback, but don’t get discouraged. If you’ll stay in faith, God promises that when the smoke clears, when the dust settles, you won’t be the victim, you’ll be the victor.

Karen Hesse

When Ma died, I didn't know how to go on, either. I don't know how. I don't feel the same know, not exactly. Now that I see that one day comes after another and you get through them one measure at a time. But I'd like to go, not like Fonda Nye, I don't want to die, I just want to go, away, out of the dust.

Karen Hesse

Now Livie's gone west, out of the dust, on her way to California, where the wind takes a rest sometimes. And I'm wondering what kind of friend I am, wanting my feet on that road to another place,instead of Livie's.

Karen Hesse

And I know now that all the time I was trying to get out of the dust, the fact is, what I am, I am because of the dust. And what I am is good enough. Even for me.

Elizabeth George

Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you.

Leonard Cohen

In streams of light I clearly saw The dust you seldom see, Out of which the Nameless makes A Name for one like me... All busy in the sunlight The flecks did float and dance, And I was tumbled up with them In formless circumstance.

Leonard Cohen

When it all comes down to dust I will kill you if I must , I will help you if I can. When it all comes down to dust I will help you if I must, I will kill you if I can.

Langston Hughes

Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows, Help us to see That without the dust the rainbow Would not be.

Gayle Forman

The bow is so old, its horsehair is glue Sent to the factory, just like me and like you So how come they stayed your execution? The audience roars its standing ovation “Dust,

Lynda Carter

I will say that going to these meetings and things, you know, I thought that, you know, be in a room with a bunch of drunk people. Ugh! I can't do that. And the truth is, it is the cheapest therapy that you could ever get. You're in a group of people that are from all walks of life, you know. Some guy that's got, you know, construction stuff on and dust still on, to a person that's the CEO of a company. And it's a common - it's a common abyss that you shared.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I'm gonna hunker down like a jack rabbit in a dust storm

Mahatma Gandhi

The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust.

Freya Stark

... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.

Kacey Musgraves

Just like dust, we settle in this town.

Gustave Flaubert

(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.

Grazia Deledda

According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.

Gordon Lightfoot

Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.